netdev - Re: [RFC] sched: CHOKe packet scheduler

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Date:	Wed, 5 Jan 2011 09:17:18 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] sched: CHOKe packet scheduler

On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 07:19:35 +0100
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:

> Le mardi 04 janvier 2011 à 16:29 -0800, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> > +static struct sk_buff *skb_peek_random(struct sk_buff_head *list)
> > +{
> > +	struct sk_buff *skb = list->next;
> > +	unsigned int idx = net_random() % list->qlen;
> > +
> > +	while (skb && idx-- > 0)
> > +		skb = skb->next;
> > +
> > +	return skb;
> > +}
> 
> You could avoid the divide op :
> 
> unsigned int idx = reciprocal_divide(random32(), list->qlen);

How would this work, it is a mod not a divide??

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